If you’re considering working on small business marketing growth strategies, I have a few great tips for you. Marketing is one of the most important things you need to do when you are trying to grow a business.
One smart way to market is to start using social media using your business or company profile. You can build a business profile on most social media websites, so do that instead of building one for personal usage. When you are on your social media account, your goal is to get people to follow you and to share information about your company that people will find interesting. If you do it right, you can share posts that get shared by others. Those posts can have links to your company’s website and that way it will help grow your customer base.
A great starting point before creating or promoting your social profiles is to have a modern website. Look around for a good web designer and ask them to show you examples of their work so you can see if you like their style. There are many people out there that will tell you they’re skilled at web design but barely know anything about designing a good business website. Ask them extensive questions to backup their claims and ask them for testimonials of their work. Also it’s worth asking people you know if they can recommend someone.
When you have a website, you really need to collect visitors emails, so you can follow up with great tips and other great content that helps your audience learn to trust you and look forward to your next email. A good rule to follow is three emails with helpful actionable content and one with asking for a sale. So now add a form to your website. This can be a box that pops up asking if people want to join and receive your newsletter or even better, offer them a reason to sign up, like an eBook or PDF with actionable content they can use. Either way you go, make sure that you keep the information private. Don’t sell it or share it because people want to know their information is safe.
You should never spam anyone when you have their email address or have them follow you on social media. For example, if you’re sending out emails 5 times a day that is probably a little too much and people could consider it spam. It doesn’t matter if you have a lot to share, you need to break it down into smaller informative pieces and share a little at a time. If people start marking your emails as spam, that could make them end up in spam folders by default, which really makes email marketing harder.
If you work on the small business marketing growth strategies given in this blog post, you can grow your company. It’s going to take time and effort, but in the end it will be worth it. Get started now and grow your business!